Compact crossword

Thursday's puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Old Scottish county (10)

7 Brushed up (8)

8 Inflammation of the big toe (4)

9 Delight in (5)

10 Attribute (7)

12 Wading bird (6-7)

15 Head of a department in France, etc (7)

17 Head (coll) (5)

20 Fasten by anchor (4)

21 Annul (8)

22 Couriers (10)

DOWN

1 Boy's name (5)

2 Expel (4,3)

3 Begrudge (4)

4 One fond of women's company (5,3)

5 West African state (5)

6 Disarray (6)

11 Cherished (8)

13 Borders river (6)

14 Utter a low, deep laugh (7)

16 Compel (5)

18 Flexes (5)

19 Seabird (4)

Wednesday's solution

Across: 1 Cold wind, 5 Scam, 9 Virga, 10 Thermal, 11 High pressure, 13 Exhort, 14 Winter, 17 offshore wind, 20 Dogtrot, 21 V-neck, 22 Rhyl, 23 Ice storm.

Down: 1 Cove, 2 Largish, 3 Weather-chart, 4 Nature, 6 Cymru, 7 Mulberry, 8 Seismic waves, 12 Seconder, 15 Tangelo, 16 Arctic, 18 Foggy, 19 Skim.